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Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.
Cloudflare says that, of customer‑identified DDoS attacks, competitors are behind 63% of attacks, and 5% are self‑inflicted.
In a series of pointed X posts, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince lays out a bold new policy that treats AI companies like ...
Cloudflare recently announced a new "pay-per-crawl" system aimed at pushing back against AI companies that continue to scrape ...
Cloudflare faced an outage Monday due to issues with its 1.1.1.1 public resolver, causing website disruptions. The company is working on a fix.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wants Google to offer improved tools to block AI crawlers. Joining a discussion on this topic ...
Cloudflare urges Google to let publishers block AI Overviews without affecting search rankings or SEO performance.
A week or so ago, Cloudflare announced it would block AI bots by default and offer a new pay per crawl initiative to ...
Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting for new customers that would block bots that artificial intelligence firms ...
More than 200 pirate domains blocked A fresh wave of site blocking has hit the UK’s already long list of outlawed pirate domains, but this time there’s an unexpected new enforcer. Cloudflare, normally ...
Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; web traffic is careening off a cliff.
Cloudflare CEO, Matthew Prince, has initiated a policy to block AI companies from scraping data unless they compensate content creators, potentially impacting giants like Google.